Fearing God from A to Z

K is for Knowledge

The pomegranate provides one of the healthiest juices we can drink. It prevents heart disease and many types of cancer.  For the last decade, experts have been saying pomegranante juice lowers LDL levels, reduces inflammation and is even low glycemic to help the millions of people who are dangerously close to becoming diabetic. This revelation came after years of extensive, scientific research.Thank God for research or should we just thank God for pomegranates? 

People spend millions of dollars attaining university degrees of all degrees. Then the 5% who enter their field of study, pour their knowledge into a career that hopefully helps others benefit from it. In certain fields of research, some go on to discover nutritional treasures such as the pomegranate and all its benefits.   

Scripture calls the fear of the Lord the beginning of knowledge (Prov. 1:7). It also says God's people are destroyed for lack of knowledge (Hosea 4:6). So fear of God must mean listening to Him. And why not? He knows everything.

Take pomegranates for instance. God made them and always knew their nutritional value. That's why He added them to a wise list of foods long ago: 
"The Lord your God is bringing you into a good land of brooks of water...
wheat and barley, vines, fig trees, pomegranantes, olive oil, and honey." 
(See Deuteronomy 8:7,8)

So the land wasn't just flowing with milk and honey.  It also offered foods that have come to light in recent years as cutting edge discoveries by educated men and women holding doctorates. And just think...this list of excellent food choices has been nestled in the Penatuch for thousands of years. 

Imagine all the knowledge we stumble through life without, simply because we don't listen to the One who knows everything. A growing fear of God changes that as surely as it changes us.